Piia-Noora’s bun is in the oven…

From European Voice's Entre-Nous column

6/15/05, 5:00 PM CET

Updated 4/23/14, 8:35 PM CET

A postscript to our note on Piia-Noora Kauppi (right), the Finnish centre-right MEP who is active on the economic and monetary affairs committee. Kauppi, who already has a 17-month-old son, is pregnant again. Her second child is due at the end of September.

“I’ll work up until September and will then take a couple of months or so off for maternity leave. I hope to be back at work after Christmas,” she said. Lobbyists take note.

There is something splendidly parochial about the state-aid investigation launched last week by the European Commission’s competition department into JC Decaux, a French advertising company. The question …